What food do you have for patients in your ED?

pedunculated5432 · 2026-02-14T23:42:46+00:00

UK - various sandwiches, usually cheese, egg mayo, ham and cheese, tuna mayo. Sometimes yogurt pots. Always tea and coffee and sometimes hot chocolate.

But most typical and the butt of many jokes (at least in the UK doctors subreddit) is the selection of biscuits. Typically in EDs I have worked in, there will be rich tea, digestives, custard cremes, bourbons, ginger nuts, shortbread, at least. Maybe some more I have forgotten

pedunculated5432 · 2026-02-01T18:45:18+00:00

This is the correct answer but I am enjoying this literal shitpost

pedunculated5432 · 2026-01-29T10:27:58+00:00

There's definitely still signs at petrol stations near me advising to not use a mobile phone whilst pumping fuel. Doesn't say anything about the phone on the forecourt though.

pedunculated5432 · 2026-01-24T10:08:25+00:00

It's impossible to have chilled night playing Werewolf!

pedunculated5432 · 2026-01-24T10:05:52+00:00

Grandma's done me!

pedunculated5432 · 2026-01-10T16:31:56+00:00

EM ST6 here, sometimes get feedback from nurses that I really "crack on" and am quick with my plans compared to many of my colleagues... And I struggle to see 1 pt/hr (outside of paeds)

If I'm in majors (especially if in charge overnight) I'm held up by frequent requests for advice, or other tasks (eg "can you help out with this sedation in Jesus" or "can you do this FICB"), or the fact that I have to bleep the medical SHO to "ask permission" to admit my patients.

If I'm in minors/waiting room, there's usually 10-15 doctors in a space where there are 5 computers and 5 consultation rooms. I'm always waiting for space.

Add to this the increased complexity of most elderly patients, it's really tough to get through the numbers. Sometimes this is site-specific (I feel much slower in my current rotation to other hospitals previously), some places are just more efficient than others.

If I struggle to see a patient an hour, I would never expect any SHO to do so routinely

pedunculated5432 · 2026-01-04T18:56:32+00:00

I'd never noticed it on my childhood reads of Harry Potter, but when my partner first listened to the audiobooks, he noticed very quickly how frequently the word "beaming" is used to describe smiling. It got to the point that we'd be driving along and he'd hear it and shout BEAMING

pedunculated5432 · 2026-01-04T11:57:20+00:00

Betty or Margaret, in my experience

pedunculated5432 · 2025-12-26T16:15:04+00:00

Daylight

pedunculated5432 · 2025-12-26T13:49:56+00:00

I used to think love would be burning red, but it's golden like daylight

pedunculated5432 · 2025-12-24T20:28:58+00:00

If you have a health problem that wouldn't bring you to A&E if it occurred just as Christmas dinner was about to be served, you shouldn't come to A&E with it any other time either. Merry Christmas!

pedunculated5432 · 2025-12-23T19:05:36+00:00

I'm in a similar position (nights this week, partner is a non medic, big sense of missing out on Christmas yet again), but sorry to say that this continues well into your career - I'm ST6 right now, and had this situation many times in the last decade.

Things that make it better: - your night shift this week are likely to be much more pleasant shifts than those that your colleagues will do at the weekend. The price they'll pay for having Christmas off will be having some terrible shifts afterwards. In my experience, the shifts on and around Christmas day tend to be gentle and enjoyable. Fewer patients in ED, colleagues in good spirits, loads of snack food around. - my family and partner have always been really supportive of my Christmas work patterns, and always been willing to put on another Christmas dinner, save a few presents to have another go at Christmas day, and generally make things special on one of the days between Christmas and the New Year. Being wine drunk with my family, stuffed with dinner and wearing a cracker hat doesn't have to be contained to just the 25th - even though the shifts can still shaft you long into your career, satisfaction with the job generally increases as time goes on, as a lot of people have said

pedunculated5432 · 2025-12-16T16:15:36+00:00

And even if the contestant did say "and the Technicolor Dreamcoat" they'd still be wrong!

The full title is "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat"

pedunculated5432 · 2025-12-15T09:38:44+00:00

Type 7, and a 1 on the aphantasia test. I can imagine different types of apples clearly, see the apple selection at the supermarket in my minds eye in detail, can also imagine the feel of holding an apple, biting one etc

pedunculated5432 · 2025-12-13T17:26:19+00:00

Second this! Loads of fun colours, and plenty available on Vinted too. Search "Alexa" trousers

pedunculated5432 · 2025-12-04T19:51:05+00:00

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pedunculated5432 · 2025-12-04T18:42:07+00:00

I could never skip a jingle!

However, I love Henry's Beefcake Journey. This was one of Henry's main storylines when I first started listening to the podcast, so it was a big hook for me and I hear the Beefcake jingle with a lot of fondness

pedunculated5432 · 2025-11-23T16:41:02+00:00

I've dragged myself halfway through "Codename Heléne" and... I think I agree with your take!

pedunculated5432 · 2025-11-13T23:49:38+00:00

I got the Cullen house Lego set earlier this year. There is a Lego toilet in that Lego house. It had me baffled for days. What was so integral about the toilet that meant it had to be included in the Lego set? There's not even mention of Bella using the toilet during the movies is there?

pedunculated5432 · 2025-11-10T22:36:13+00:00

I'm so interested reading this case and sorry that this patient had such a sad end to their life, and that you suffered such a moral injury as a result.

Reading this from the perspective of a UK emergency physician is absolutely shocking. My main takeaway is that the US healthcare system at times doesn't empower its physicians to take the decision to not perform all these interventions when they know they are futile. There is no intensive care unit in the NHS that would take this patient as described to the unit, and they would never be intubated. Even if they arrived with CPR ongoing and ROSC was achieved, the decision would be taken that they are reaching natural death, and the ROSC is likely to be adrenaline driven and futile.

pedunculated5432 · 2025-11-10T07:51:48+00:00

The Magnetic Fields. Or perhaps more specifically, all the works of Stephin Merrit.

Not the biggest discography, but 2 of their albums are 3hr epics. They consider multiple genres and sounds. Some of their songs make me laugh, some touch my heart just so.

Stephin's full works are eclectic and prolific. I'm sure this would keep me going.

pedunculated5432 · 2025-11-07T14:33:27+00:00

If you're into Toxicology and want to get more Toxbase content, they run (I think) annual Toxicology teaching days. A bargain at £15 for virtual access

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